THE chairman of the Commission on the Newspaper Industry was the former Chief Justice, Mr Justice Thomas Finlay.
The other members were: Ms Mary Broughan, business consultant; Ms Noreen Byrne, chairwoman of the National Women's Council of Ireland; Ms Stasia Crickley, lecturer in St Patrick's College, Maynooth; Mr Ted Crosbie, executive chairman of the Cork Examiner; Mr John Fanning, managing director, McConnells Advertising Services; Professor Brian Farrell, director general of the Institute of European Affairs; Ms Mary Finan, managing director, Wilson Hartnell Public Relations; Professor Paddy Geary, Department of Economics, Maynooth College; Mr John Horgan, head of the School of Journalism, Dublin City University; Mr John Kerry Keane, editor of the Kilkenny People; Mr Christy Loftus, former chairman of the Irish Executive Council of the National Union of Journalists; Mr Roibeard Mac Gorain, chief executive of Gael Linn; Ms Marie McGonagle, media law expert; Mr Oliver Donoghue, education officer, Irish Congress of Trade Unions; Mr Louis O'Neill, group managing director and deputy chief executive of The Irish Times; Mr Michael O'Reilly of IM Management Consultants; Mr David Palmer, managing director, Independent Newspapers; Mr Vincent Power, solicitor with A&L Goodbody, Solicitors; Ms Patricia Quinn, cultural director of Temple Bar Properties; and Mr Dick Walsh, political editor, The Irish Times.
